larrykell
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| Pure Class A amps above 100 Watts? Hello George, Thanks for putting my rather modest efforts in perspective, haha! We need the audio equivalent of Jay Leno’s Garage, where we could all wander around a big warehouse space and look at sound systems from various eras. As for sound... | |
| Pure Class A amps above 100 Watts? By the way, my Gryphon Colosseumseems to be running fine off of a Niagara 5000. I decided I needed some protection from power surges. My friend with the Mephisto solos is running each on a 5000 and he decided he didn’t need a third 5000 so he sold... | |
| Pure Class A amps above 100 Watts? Haha, George, what a trip! Thanks for sharing that information. Do you have any pictures of that water cooled amp? Nothing succeeds like excess. I owned a Mac computer that was water/liquid cooled. It weighed a ton. How much did your amp weigh?I g... | |
| Pure Class A amps above 100 Watts? My Gryphon Colosseum draws 500w while idling. I don’t idle, meaning, letting it run without signal, so that is no worry to me, lol. I can’t see how any Class A amp can draw only a few watts when the point of Class A is that the transistors are on ... | |
| amp to buy? I think you’ve come to the right place. Over the years, I’ve bought and sold gear on here and have found this to be a good place to find excellent used equipment and to get advice. | |
| Buy a $40,000 10 year old amp for $4,000 or new amp for same money? Often, that can be the case. All audio equipment depreciates over time. My current used Class A amp cost around me 50% of the MSRP, and is about seven or eight years old, if I recall correctly.Can you give us more specifics about the amp?Before my... | |
| amp to buy? Are you building a system from scratch? What is your budget? We live in a wonderful time where it is possible to stream tens of thousands of CDs for about $20 a month, for lossless streaming. I stream Tidal and Qobuz integrated under Roon running ... | |
| amp to buy? I would think all amps are compatible with all power amps. The XLR or RCA output jacks on a DAC go into the XLR or RCA inputs on an integrated amp or preamp. Separate amps, not integrated amps, are only connected to a preamp. Yes, separate DACs ha... | |
| Converting balanced output from a DaySequerra tuner to unbalanced input for my preamp? Actually, I'm not sure what the connectors are on the back of the Sequerra M4.2S. Are the XLR female or male? I can't quite tell from the picture. | |
| Converting balanced output from a DaySequerra tuner to unbalanced input for my preamp? Thanks. I need XLR female to RCA male. | |
| Class A Solid State Sound Oh, mijostyn, the Gryphon gear is durable and engineered to high standards. I expect to be running my class A amp for decades. It sounds great, too. The Gryphon Colosseum is one of the most beautiful amps I've ever seen and it does not take up a l... | |
| Class A Solid State Sound George, that is one crazy amp, haha. My rule is, if I can lift it, I don’t want it. Is ME mainly confined to the Australian market? I have not heard of them. | |
| Class A Solid State Sound Thanks, George.The Gryphon Colosseum has three user selectable bias levels, Low, which is 30w Class A, Medium, which is 70w Class A, and High, which is 165w Class A. I can tell the difference and prefer running at High, but that’s hard to do in th... | |
| Class A Solid State Sound “Getting back to the OP's original post. Class A circuits ( and we are specifically talking about amplifier output stages here ), just sound smoother, more homogenized, less artificial, more involving, with every attribute of recorded music reprod... | |
| Looking for a reasonably priced 20A power cord Update: Patrick Cullen is willing to build me custom cables with the Sonarquest carbon gold connectors so I’m going that route. It’s going to take a little while but, hopefully, it should be worth it. I can run with the stock power cords for a whi... |